From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 77645 invoked by alias); 1 Dec 2017 01:18:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 77630 invoked by uid 89); 1 Dec 2017 01:18:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-11.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2,GIT_PATCH_3,KAM_SHORT,KB_WAM_FROM_NAME_SINGLEWORD,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=onlinedocs, RCS X-HELO: ainaz.pair.com Received: from ainaz.pair.com (HELO ainaz.pair.com) (209.68.2.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 01 Dec 2017 01:18:11 +0000 Received: from ainaz.pair.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ainaz.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 134CC3F6BE for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:18:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from [172.26.7.222] (unknown [104.129.192.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ainaz.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AC9333F6A4 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:18:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 01:18:00 -0000 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [wwwdocs] bugs/index.html: remove explanation of major releases Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-12/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 We adopted a numbering scheme that clearly shows major releases as such, so this bit has become unnecessary (and was outdated for all pratical purposes). Applied. Gerald Index: index.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/bugs/index.html,v retrieving revision 1.120 diff -u -r1.120 index.html --- index.html 25 Nov 2017 19:01:33 -0000 1.120 +++ index.html 1 Dec 2017 01:17:15 -0000 @@ -676,13 +676,6 @@ compatibility section of the GCC manual.

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Remark: A major release is designated by a change to the first or second -component of the two- or three-part version number. A minor (bug-fix) -release is designated by a change to the third component only. Thus GCC -3.2 and 3.3 are major releases, while 3.3.1 and 3.3.2 are bug-fix releases -for GCC 3.3. With the 3.4 series we are introducing a new naming scheme; -the first release of this series is 3.4.0 instead of just 3.4.

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Standard conformance

With each release, we try to make G++ conform closer to the